The storm was so strong a hurricane hunter had to end its mission early.

The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the Category 4 was packing maximum winds of about 145 miles per hour – and would likely intensify into a top-level Category 5 storm…

Melissa is forecast to make landfall on the island Tuesday and cross Cuba and the Bahamas through Wednesday.

Melissa's center was forecast to move over Jamaica on Tuesday

At least four people have already been killed as the storm batters the Caribbean with heavy winds and torrential rainfall

We would like to hear from people about the impact Hurricane Melissa is having in their area

Hurricane Melissa roared to Category 5 strength on Monday as it churned toward Jamaica, where forecasters warned of catastrophic flooding, deadly...

Storm reached sustained winds of 160 mph on Monday morning.

Melissa has strengthened into a major Category 5 storm. Here's what that means.

La tempesta di categoria 5 punta sulla Giamaica: ecco tutti gli strumenti per seguirne il percorso in tempo reale, dai satelliti NOAA ai modelli meteorologici avanzati

At least seven people have already been killed as the storm batters the Caribbean with heavy winds and torrential rainfall

Slow-moving giant about to make landfall and will linger over the island before slamming into Cuba

Hurricane Melissa intensified Tuesday before making landfall on Jamaica as by far the strongest storm to hit the island of 2.8 million people since records...

Watch a live view of Hurricane Melissa making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday (28 October).

Melissa, a strong Category 5 hurricane, was within hours of landfall on the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica early Tuesday.

The storm was so strong a hurricane hunter had to end its mission early.

Jamaica’s government says it has done all it can to prepare for strongest hurricane in country since records began

Hurricane Melissa, a catastrophic Category 5 storm, makes landfall in Jamaica, threatening severe damage and widespread evacuations.

Melissa is among three Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall with 185 mph winds. Another storm to do so was the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935.

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since record-keeping began in 1851

Jamaica is bracing itself as Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, is expected to make landfall and bring with it winds of up to 175mph (280kmph).It could be the strongest storm…